Just a little off-topic post to try to jump start this stagnant blog.
Here’s a little taste of a couple happenings in my absence from the blogosphere. Perhaps you read the headline and thought it was an oxymoronic metaphor for my life, but it’s actually quite literal.
As I let weeds grow around this blog, plant life seems to be taking over other areas as well. So let’s start with the roots in my pipes. I have a toilet that had a really slow flush and one day, ugly dirt (yes, dirt) started bubbling up and over. Time to break down and actually call the plumber. I was disappointed yet relieved that he displayed no stereotypical crack for me to spackle, but he did find and solve the problem.
Yes, that’s an actual tree root.
Since then I’ve had another plumber come in, this time to fix a leak from upstairs dripping down into the shower. Problem solved, but I’m still waiting on the drywall contractor to come fix the hole.
Now let’s move onto the party in my drawers. Sorry, but I’ll leave it up to you to create your own salacious scenario here. What I’m here to tell you about is the party in my kitchen. When I was redecorating, I painted only one drawer red. It is the drawer that contains such handy implements as wine & bottle openers. You know, the “party drawer.” So if anyone asked me where those items were I could simply say “the red drawer.”
Recently, I found out that in the absence of human parties, those implements have been having their own fun. I opened the drawer to retrieve the aforementioned wine opener and here is what I saw:
Looks like MC Ice Cream Scoop (Ice is such a popular handle) decided to pump up the volume and entertain the other misfits in this drawer I obviously care very little about with a few notable exceptions. Good for him.
So, am I back? Will there soon be some actual golf related material here? As a friend recently pointed out to me, this is a difficult horse to get back on once you’ve been off for so long. But it is my sincere hope that now that I’ve posted something, I’ll get on my butt and start writing about all the golf topics that have been piling up in my head and share them with you.
If you’re still here after all this time, thank you! And I apologize for the lengthy dearth of content here.
December 12, 2008 at 2:15 am
Welcome back! Don’t know why I decided to check out yout site today, but glad I did – and sorry about the vagaries of Mother Nature.
Looking forward to golf thoughts soonest.
December 12, 2008 at 9:00 pm
This actually happened to us too….We have a lake house that is about 200 years old…lots of big trees near it. One day the sink would not drain – we tried everything and couldn’t it to go down. Called in a plumber and had a root in the pipe….funny now – but not at the time!
December 13, 2008 at 3:17 am
Welcome back! I kept you on my blogroll knowing you’d be back. In the meantime it served as a sort of “best of.”
The party drawer is sort of Andy Warholish.
December 16, 2008 at 2:53 pm
I am new to your blog and have found you to be a very intriguing author!
December 18, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Thats Funny! Lol
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December 19, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Hey Kristen!
Good to see you back in the swing!
Ummm…maybe it’s a Rorschach test on how MY mind works, but did you notice the OTHER party apparently going on down in the lower LEFT hand corner of the picture???
Your corkscrew seems to be taking LIBERTIES with the handle of what APPEARS to be a cheese grater…..
Film at 11…
Welcome back…we’ve missed your WIT…
Scott
December 20, 2008 at 2:42 am
Thanks to all who commented and emailed with your kind remarks! Glad to be back and I can feel myself ramping up to do some actual golf posts.
And Scott – That wine opener is just insatiable. Trust me, he gets plenty of action and doesn’t need to be molesting anyone. Joke’s on him, though. That “cheese grater” is actually a pre-op pizza cutter. I bet he was embarrassed the next morning.
December 20, 2008 at 9:40 am
LOL! Well, you know how those corkscrews ARE…
Hey, I think we just hit on a new website/blog topic!
Existential analysis of people’s utensil drawers, with salacious overtones!
We’ll retire RICH!!! Think of the ADVERTISING tie-in opportunities!!!
Kristen!!! You’ve done it AGAIN!!!!
=)
(Now watch someone actually go ahead and DO IT!!!)
December 20, 2008 at 11:04 am
So glad you are back Kristen!
December 26, 2008 at 5:43 pm
I had a similar situation with our last house, but not nearly as bad. We just had some small roots growing into the pipes and would have to clean them out about one a year.
February 11, 2009 at 1:50 pm
I know the blogging ‘pen’ gets heavy occasionally, but please pick it up and come back to us…
Somebody once told me ‘you stop writing, when you stop reading’…
Commit to reading a little everyday and writing three days in a row. It’s therapeutic.
February 15, 2009 at 6:53 pm
I went throught the very same thing after we moved into our “new” house last June. Ours was under ground to the point we had a bulldozer in the front yard!
February 20, 2009 at 9:46 pm
How does this even happen? are you pipes outside?
February 22, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Very interesting article, i have bookmarked your blog for future referrence